Spare the woman's body || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Good evening, sir. My question to you is regarding the fertility clinics. So in India, it is

00:09 a huge business, the IVF fertility clinics and around the globe, it is booming. And many

00:14 rich people tend to go for it. We have seen that women are often forced to go through

00:21 multiple IVF cycles, leading to diseases like cancers, and then even death in some cases.

00:28 And arguably, a large number of women are also committing suicide annually throughout

00:33 the globe, because of the physical and mental trauma that this process impales on them.

00:38 So like the technology, which initially promised that it is going to give something good to

00:44 the human society and a positive thing, it turns out later in the path, the technology

00:50 itself becomes a problem for us. So how do we approve this evil from society?

01:02 See if you want a headshot, answer in one line, the answer is, it is abuse to the human

01:15 body to be treated as a machine for reproduction. That's the last thing the human body should

01:35 be used for. The function of reproduction must move out of the female body. I strongly

01:56 hold that if women are to attain the rightful purpose of life, then they cannot squander

02:10 their life energy on things like pregnancy. Our body centricity and the historical urge

02:26 to increase and maintain a population has made us venerate fertility. We have goddesses

02:39 of fertility. In cultures across the globe, we have had them. And why was that needed?

02:47 That was needed because populations were small and disease was rife. People were dying all

02:56 the time, kids were dying all the time. So a fertile womb was a great asset. And wars

03:07 were fought on manpower. The bigger army would frequently win. So you needed populations.

03:18 And wars were savage. If you were defeated, you were decimated. So that's the reason why

03:28 in our culture and in all cultures, motherhood and fertility and pregnancy have become such

03:38 hallowed things. We talk so fondly and so respectfully of motherhood, don't we? But

03:47 please look at it without bias. Look at it neatly, cleanly. And what is all that? A woman

04:04 is in her prime at the time of pregnancy. What are you taking away her prime time for?

04:18 And keep the emotional arguments apart, please. Your emotions are a product of your conditioning.

04:25 Your emotions have all been bred out of your cultural upbringing. Please tell me why should

04:41 a human body be used as a machine to produce nutrition for another body and that too for

04:50 long periods, an year, sometimes more than a year. You're using one body as a machine

04:59 to produce nutrition for another body. I know what I'm saying will be pretty much unhearable

05:09 to a lot of people. They will abuse me as being insensitive, inhuman and everything.

05:20 But I'm speaking out of a certain sensitivity, please. Women constitute 50% of humanity.

05:28 Let's not destroy them. We've already done enough of that in history. I mean, think of

05:47 yourself. You will have a career and being a bright student, you will probably roam continents

05:59 and you will have exposure and you will do this and you will do that and you will have

06:02 a wife and your wife too will be probably as educated as you are and when you will be

06:08 doing all the things you will be doing, she'll be sitting at home nursing the baby. How fair

06:12 is that? Please tell me. And can she really grow as a human being if her existence is

06:22 tied to a baby and not one baby, several babies? So, science can take care of all this. Babies

06:42 can be born in special facilities and they must be conceived, incubated, raised there.

07:01 The mother's job must be to elevate the consciousness of the child. The mother should be a rightful

07:08 teacher, not a birth giver. The task of giving birth must be accorded to science because

07:20 that's a mechanical function and whatsoever is mechanical must be done by machines. But

07:29 educating a child is not something a machine can do. Invoking discretion and wisdom in

07:46 a child is not something a machine can do and that's where the mother's role starts.

07:54 She should provide nutrition to the baby but not through breastfeeding. Through education,

08:04 she must be the teacher. Are you getting it? The relationship between the mother and the

08:18 child has to be one of consciousness, not one of the body. You see what the situation

08:36 is currently like. The mother's body gives birth to the child's body, so physical relationship.

08:44 And the mother is nursing the child physically, breastfeeding physically and in all this the

08:50 mother hardly has any concern for the kid's consciousness. She never could have any concern

08:58 for her own consciousness. How will she have concern for the kid's consciousness? The result

09:04 is a largely unconscious population on the planet that is destroying the planet itself.

09:22 If you take the cultural aggrandization out of the picture, I assure you no woman enjoys

09:31 the time of pregnancy. It's just that that time has been glorified in fairy tales and

09:40 cultural symbols. So the woman thinks she is going through something noble, something

09:50 sublime, something worth it. The thing is keep all the cultural praise aside. No woman

10:00 enjoys that. Even those who claim they are enjoying it greatly are actually enjoying

10:08 only the psychological gratification that comes from the culture they belong to. Nobody

10:23 enjoys it. And the risk to her own life at the time of delivery. So many women die. Even

10:34 if they don't die, they have to bear so much on their body. Why must all that be necessary?

10:45 How is that contributing to the kid's quality of life? Please tell me. How is the kid going

10:54 to have a better life if the kid emerges by tearing the mother's womb apart as happens

11:02 in a caesarean delivery? All that is largely unnecessary. The kid might as well have been

11:11 brought home from a high-tech, dedicated, state-of-the-art medical facility and the

11:19 mother in a healthy way, without having gone through the needless pains of pregnancy would

11:27 have received the child. And now the mother is in a better shape to nurture the child.

11:39 Better shape and a better mental condition. And the child too, coming from a medical facility,

11:53 is more sound of health. You see, we used to utilize human muscle to run vehicles, didn't

12:10 we? That was not too long back. We said human muscle is to be used for energy. You wanted

12:22 to do your laundry. What did you use for it? The human body. You used the human body to

12:33 do your laundry, right? In fact, India developed a special caste just to do your laundry. You

12:49 wanted to do your shoes. You used again energy from human muscles to do your shoes. Anything

13:00 you wanted to do, you utilized the human body, right? Today you don't do that. So all the

13:13 mechanical functions have moved out of the human body, have they not? So if all the mechanical

13:22 functions can move out of the human body, why must childbirth not move out of the human

13:27 body? And if you say what is to be done through the human body must be done only through human

13:36 body, then let there be no machines. Let there be no solar energy or wind energy or nuclear

13:50 energy. Let there be only muscular energy. Why do you burn fossil fuels? Run and carry

14:02 all the load on your back. Because what has been traditionally done through the human

14:11 body must be done through the human body. Traditionally human beings have carried all

14:15 the load on their backs. Don't even use animals. Just carry it on your own back. Because traditionally

14:21 that's what has happened. No tradition is sacred. Traditions exist for our sake. If

14:32 one day we were using muscular energy and now we have freed our muscles, no? Similarly

14:40 till today we have been using the woman's womb. Let's liberate her of the womb. Just

14:48 as you have liberated your muscles, liberate her womb as well. Let her be, please. There

15:00 are so many other examples where you were traditionally using the human body and no

15:04 more, no more. Sir on the same line I have a follow up question

15:15 if you say. Sir I recently read somewhere like this is the possible thing that a human

15:23 baby can be conceived totally out of the human body. It is possible maybe 5-10 years down

15:29 the line. So they also will get the ability and capacity to change the characteristics

15:36 of the child before the birth where they can genetically modify the characteristics like

15:41 physical strength or height and hair color and intelligence also, maybe gender also.

15:47 So obviously rich people will be using these products. So will this not create a gap between

15:54 the rich and poor and create a totally different race of rich people? Will this be a good thing

16:01 for the human civilization? No, not really. You see doing all this you can at most give

16:08 certain resources to the child. You can ensure the child is tall. Now what is height? It

16:19 is a resource. It does not guarantee anything. The purpose of life is elevation of consciousness.

16:29 Humans cannot give high consciousness to the newborn. Using machines or using genetic engineering

16:39 you can at most modify or exaggerate the physical attributes of the child. But just because

16:50 the child has been provided certain physical attributes in plenty that does not mean the

16:58 child will be special in consciousness. Consciousness is something that the child has to develop

17:04 on his own after birth. Right? It's a choice. Consciousness means choice. You can have the

17:13 best of bodies, the best of health, the parents chose your color with great caution and you

17:21 were given a body that would never fall sick. You can have all those things and still lead

17:25 a very wretched life. So it's not that the rich will have some kind of an unfair advantage

17:37 or something. Nobody is going to get a head start just because the kid is fair or tall

17:44 or more muscular or more handsome or whatever. You can choose the color of the hair, so what?

17:53 You can choose that, I mean what else? What do you mean by physical attributes? You can

17:58 have a child who will have strong lungs, strong heart and all those things. None of that matters

18:06 beyond a point. What matters ultimately is consciousness and to the consciousness all

18:14 these things are mere resources. It's a choice to put these resources to the right use.

18:22 And history is replete with instances where people who were extraordinarily blessed at

18:30 the time of birth lived utterly miserable lives because they did not know what to do

18:35 with their gifts. And at the same time people who were born in pretty ordinary situations,

18:44 not really gifted people, not people of high IQ either, they really impacted the very flow

18:52 of human history because that's what they chose and that choice is independent of the

18:58 body you carry. That choice is something very mysterious. Somebody with great resources

19:06 might still not dare to exercise his choice rightly and somebody with very feeble resources

19:12 might still have the faith to make the right choice. It's just a thing of choice. There

19:19 is no reason behind it. Why did that happen that way? It was a choice. And I am not talking

19:24 of influenced choices. I am not talking of conditioned choices. Consciousness has the

19:29 ability to make a free choice. It may not make a free choice and it does not make free

19:36 choices. Usually it never makes free choices. That's another thing. But the option to choose

19:41 freedom is there.

19:43 [pause]

19:48 [music]

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